Rodent trap

Abstract

A rodent trap includes a housing defined by a rectilinear framework, including a floor, spaced side walls, and a rear wall, with a top wall defined by a pivotally mounted door permitting access to contents of the container. A "U" shaped handle member is mounted to an upper terminal end of frontal frame legs, wherein a medial "U" shaped frame member pivotally mounts a trap door therebetween. The trap door is pivotally mounted medially of its length, whereupon a rodent tempted forwardly by bait along the trap door effects pivotment of the trap door and its closure of the front wall of the trap structure.

What is claimed as being new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows: 
     
       1. A rodent trap, comprising, a housing, the housing including a mesh floor, a mesh right side wall, a mesh left side wall, and a mesh rear wall, the housing further including a rectilinear front frame and a rectilinear top frame, the rectilinear front frame including a front opening coextensively formed within the front frame, and a rectilinear top frame including an access door pivotally mounted within the top frame, the access door including a door axle directed into the top frame, with the top frame including a top frame rear leg, the access door including an access door rear edge, and an abutment rod extending beyond the access door mounted to the access door rear edge, and   the top frame rear leg including a slot, the abutment rod received within the slot in a first position, with the abutment rod extending beyond the slot and the rear wall for manual grasping of the rod to permit lifting of the access door relative to the top frame, and   the front frame including a trap door mounted within the front frame, the trap door pivotal from a first horizontal position permitting access of a rodent to the trap door to a second position, wherein the trap door is arranged in a vertical orientation within the front frame opening.   
     
     
       2. A rodent trap as set forth in claim 1 wherein the front frame includes a right frontal frame leg spaced from and parallel a left frontal frame leg, and a frontal frame bottom leg coextensive with the mesh floor, and a frontal frame top leg coextensive with the top frame, and a "U" shaped handle member fixedly and orthogonally mounted to an upper terminal end of the right frontal frame leg and the left frontal frame leg, and a "U" shaped support mounted below and parallel the "U" shaped handle and fixedly secured within the frontal frame to the right frontal frame leg and the left frontal frame leg medially of the right frontal frame leg and the left frontal frame leg between the frontal frame bottom leg and the frontal frame top leg, and the "U" shaped support rotatably mounting the trap door member therewithin. 
     
     
       3. A rodent trap as set forth in claim 2 wherein the "U" shaped support includes a support lip, the support lip mounting a forward edge of the trap door member when the trap door is in a first horizontal position, and a latch plate mounted adjacent the frontal frame top leg to abut a bottom surface of the trap door member and maintain the trap door member in the second vertical position when the trap door member is rotated to the second vertical position. 
     
     
       4. A rodent trap as set forth in claim 3 further including a right leg member and a left leg member, the right leg member including an upper terminal end mounted to the "U" shaped handle member and to the "U" shaped support extending downwardly from the "U" shaped support in alignment with the frontal frame bottom leg, and the left leg member mounted to the "U" shaped handle members spaced from and parallel the right leg member and mounted to the "U" shaped support extending downwardly to the frontal frame bottom leg coextensive therewith, wherein the right leg member and the left leg member are coextensive relative to one another, and including a ladder mesh coextensively mounted between the right leg member and left leg member between a lower terminal end of the right leg member and the left leg member and the "U" shaped support to permit access of a rodent to the "U" shaped support. 
     
     
       5. A rodent trap as set forth in claim 4 wherein the trap door member includes an interior cavity, the interior cavity includes a plurality of parallel tracks contained therewithin, and each parallel track includes a spherical weight member rotatably mounted within each track, and the trap door includes a trap door window positioned adjacent a rear edge of the trap door through a bottom surface of the trap door, and the frontal frame bottom leg includes a ferromagnetic strip, wherein the ferromagnetic strip is in magnetic engagement with each spherical weight member through a respective track window when the trap door member is in the vertical second position.